NE Strom updates for Tu & We Feb 9 & 10

[2fly4u]

John John:
question is are the express carriers who get paid on completion factor still getting paid for USAirways requiring them to cancel flights"

ME:
don't think you are making any real sense . Isn't it weather condidtions requiring them to cancel? Are we to believe that express which seems to cancel flights over light rain/ fog on any given day would suddenly be able to overcome severe weather conditions ? You're funny.

 

[john john]

John John:
question is are the express carriers who get paid on completion factor still getting paid for USAirways requiring them to cancel flights"

ME:
don't think you are making any real sense . Isn't it weather condidtions requiring them to cancel? Are we to believe that express which seems to cancel flights over light rain/ fog on any given day would suddenly be able to overcome severe weather conditions ? You're funny.

You think the fee for departure contract carriers will not get one cent for the per cancellations of there flights by USAirways
The completion factor is how they get paid. Contract carriers are know to operate 6 hours late with zero passengers just to get paid. I don’t know what world you live in. if it’s businesses as usual at the contract carriers a deal will possibly be cut for the pre cancellations of contract carrier by the parties involved. I hope your are right and they got paid ZIP…USAirways should do that more often
You better believe fee for departure contract carriers that get paid for completion of their flights protect there flying. And I don’t think is funny that the contact carriers are sucking US dry

 

[Mtnman928]

Local news just updated Philly's estimated snowfall to 24". :angry: Says it will win the 'Snow Bowl', compared to other NE big cities, with most snow this season. I'm guessing there's areas nearby that are getting even more.

MM

 

[ggiby]

Scheduling Committee Update
February 9, 2010




Today we received the following Operational Update from the Company concerning severe weather in the Northeast:

This is a Company Operational Alert Update for Tuesday, February 09, 2010:

Due to the severe weather that is moving into several of our cities we are operating under the “Severe Irregular Operation’ provisions of the working agreements.

This will be in effect through Thursday, February 11, 2010


Based upon the weather forecasts the following action plan has been put into place.

PIT snow starts now and ends around Noon Wednesday expecting 4-8 inches
No action plan required for PIT


DCA snow starts around 2pm today ends between 1-3pm Wed. expecting 8-12 inches
DCA - no operations after 4pm Tuesday IAD/BWI no RONs
No Operations out of DCA/BWI/IAD on Wednesday


PHL snow starts around 6-8pm Tuesday and should end between 7-9pm Wed. expecting 12-18 inches
We will operate the Eastbound Transatlantic tonight and will have a limited operation after 8pm tonight. No operation until 2pm Wednesday and after 2pm a limited operation for the rest of the night.


NYC snow starts 12-2am Wednesday ends 10-11pm Wed. expecting 12-18 inches
No RONs tonight at EWR/JFK Limited RONs at LGA No operations at LGA/EWR/JFK Wednesday


CLT – Will be operating as normal

USAPA Scheduling Committee


here is an update from :Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority
UPDATED: Wednesday, February 10 at 7:30 a.m.

Another major winter storm has arrived in the Washington region. It is expected that there will be no flights operating at Reagan National Airport Wednesday or at Washington Dulles International on February 10.

If there are changes to this information the website will be updated later today.

Reagan National (DCA) Status

Passengers are advised to contact their airlines to confirm their flights BEFORE coming to the airport.
If your flight is canceled, please call your airline's customer service telephone number or rebook through your airline's website. Use the links posted below for airline contact information
Please check the latest status of Metrorail service to above-ground stations, including the Reagan National Airport Metro station, by visiting www.wmata.com
Dulles International (IAD) Airport Status

Passengers are advised to contact their airlines to confirm their flights BEFORE coming to the airport.
If your flight is canceled, please call your airline's customer service telephone number or rebook through your airline's website. Use the links posted below for airline contact information.
Washington Flyer Coach service from the West Falls Church Metro station to Dulles Airport will operate as long as Metrorail service to the station is available. For information regarding Metrorail and Metrobus service, please visit www.wmata.com

 

[Dont call me Shirley]

And DC is suspending plowing city streets. Too dangerous, they say.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/10...t-snow-removal/

Washington, D.C., and neighboring Montgomery County, Md., may have just lived up to its reputation as "wimpy" weather warriors -- suspending snow plow operations as a blizzard bears down on the region.

Or maybe not.

The National Weather Service on Wednesday used the phrases "extremely dangerous" and "life-threatening blizzard" to describe conditions in Baltimore and Washington, which have both set records this week for the snowiest seasons ever. Wind gusts have reached as high as 60 miles per hour as the blizzard passed through the region.

Meanwhile, at the other end of the nation, frost in SoCal is causing deicing delays it was so cold in Burbank* that passengers at Bob Hope Airport waiting for a 7 a.m. Southwest Airlines flight to Oakland were told they would have to wait until ice on the plane's wings melted.

"Folks, there will be a delay," an airline worker said over the intercom. "There's ice on the wings, and as this is Southern California, there is no de-icing equipment. We will have to wait for the sun to come up to warm the wings."
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-rain10-m,0,43075.story

 

[john john]

Here we go again.

Read the CWA/company arbitration award on severe weather

 

[dexter]

Know what you mean John John, as you can see my response has totally disappeared off the thread you quoted from, and any other responses related to mine. My hunches were correct. I feel very sad that there will not be any mention of what US is doing to the PIT workers right now.

 

[Dont call me Shirley]

Just talked with a DCA agent, management there issued attendance points for people who missed work last weekend due to the storm. (Not that there were any flights to work). He told me that people are being charged two points for "absence other than illness". This as the Federal government has been pretty much shut down since Friday and many suburban streets in VA and MD remain unplowed. The CWA stewards in DCA are going to be pretty busy with grievances. Glad to know that the company will penalize customer service folks even as the nation's capital is paralyzed by some of the worst winter weather on the books.

Rumor has it that the company put some agents up in hotels Friday night. Great except the hotel shuttle did not run Saturday AM!

 

[Al Legheny]

Just talked with a DCA agent, management there issued attendance points for people who missed work last weekend due to the storm. (Not that there were any flights to work). He told me that people are being charged two points for "absence other than illness". This as the Federal government has been pretty much shut down since Friday and many suburban streets in VA and MD remain unplowed. The CWA stewards in DCA are going to be pretty busy with grievances. Glad to know that the company will penalize customer service folks even as the nation's capital is paralyzed by some of the worst winter weather on the books.

Rumor has it that the company put some agents up in hotels Friday night. Great except the hotel shuttle did not run Saturday AM!

The National News, I can't remember which channel, has reported that this storm is the worst in recorded history for the DC area. It brings home the true nature of management from a great distance. The weather in Tempe is fair with mostly clear skies and very moderate temperatures.

This management is now has an airline with 2/3 of its operations subject to winter storms. It is not an outlier or a statistical anomaly, it is a fact of life in the East. This company is just now coming to grips with this idea that weather will periodically ruin their spread sheets.

The first reaction will be to blame the employees. When they realize that the employees can't get to work by car or bus or any other way they will then realize that the actually have to manage the airline.

 

[Harry Callahan]

Just talked with a DCA agent, management there issued attendance points for people who missed work last weekend due to the storm. (Not that there were any flights to work). He told me that people are being charged two points for "absence other than illness". This as the Federal government has been pretty much shut down since Friday and many suburban streets in VA and MD remain unplowed. The CWA stewards in DCA are going to be pretty busy with grievances. Glad to know that the company will penalize customer service folks even as the nation's capital is paralyzed by some of the worst winter weather on the books.

Rumor has it that the company put some agents up in hotels Friday night. Great except the hotel shuttle did not run Saturday AM!

This just proves how bad this management sucks. I wish I could say what I really want to right now. It's your safety first. Tell them where to go :down: :down:

 

[Dont call me Shirley]

Things are still messy in the NE. Just had a look at flightstats.com - lots of cancellations still.

7:01 a.m. Dulles reopens at 6 a.m., but uncertainty at Reagan National
Washington Dulles International Airport reopened at 6 a.m. Thursday for flight operations, an airports authority spokeswoman said. Reagan National Airport remained closed, but could open later in the day. Both those airports, along with Baltimore Washington International Airport, are advising travelers to check with their airlines before leaving home to catch their flights.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/local-bre...ml?hpid=topnews

At Philadelphia International Airport, all commercial flights were canceled. Airport crews were working "nonstop on snow removal in preparation for airlines' resuming operations as early as Thursday morning," an airport spokeswoman said.

Southwest Airlines Co., Philadelphia's second-busiest carrier, canceled morning flights for today, and US Airways will have limited arrivals and departures in the morning.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20100211...us_at_best.html

Take a look at some of the stories about road conditions and the problems for transit. Yet the ACP points are flying, if the flights are not.